Indigenous Americans Archives

From Portland to New York, The United States Has Always Abducted People

Abductions and theft of people have been the sordid and foundational reality for BIPOC within the United States and across the globe. TW/CW: This article mentions and describes white supremacist abductions, cultural genocide, state violence, and chattel slavery. As pictures and videos

Aug 3, 2020

News & Politics

Colonizers Were and Are The Real Looters

Colonialism and settler-colonialism rely upon the consistent theft, resource extraction, and looting of Indigenous people's land, goods, bodies, and lives. When you hear pundits moan and whine about the immorality of looting, what they’re usually referring to is people breaking into

Jul 20, 2020

Race

Black and Indigenous American Solidarity is Crucial to Ending Settler Colonialism

Indigenous communities can offer support to Black Americans by doing our own reckoning while honoring the space they deserve to tell the truth about their history. By Angelina Newsom Last Week The New York Times released a ground-breaking enterprise called The 1619

Aug 23, 2019

Race

The Anti-Indigenous and Anti-Black Roots of the Second Amendment

The Second Amendment is fundamental to the roots of white settler violence in their genocide project against Native populations, as well as to control, and ultimately eliminate freed Black people in America. With every new mass shooting in America, the resounding

Oct 21, 2017

Race

How Environmental Racism Affects Indigenous Communities in the USA

Environmental racism in the case of Indigenous Americans must be acknowledged as an insidious form of genocide.

Environmental racism is a term that first began its use in the environmental justice movements of the 1970s and 1980s, primarily to address concerns about black communities being negatively affected by the US government’s social policies. As the environmental justice movement grew, the term environmental racism came to connote all minority and communities of color who across the USA were equally and disastrously affected by policies involving their access to clean air, water, and non-contaminated land. While the term environmental racism has only existed for the past few decades, its reality has existed since the beginning of white settler colonialism in the United States and indigenous communities have been particularly victimized by environmental racism. From 1872-1873 the US military went on a targeted campaign to kill millions of buffalo in order to starve Indigenous populations and force them to comply with the newly developing reservation systems. These plots of reservation lands displaced Indigenous communities from their ancestral homes and were often inhospitable environments without easy access to water, food, and other natural resources that made self-sufficiency virtually impossible. Even today, indigenous peoples in America continue to survive ongoing and often daily assaults on their rights to livable spaces.